#understand the blogger

[vera-dauriac]

understand the blogger (because @verdiesque said I should)

Emma (1815) by Jane Austen

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Casablanca (1943)

The Brother Karamazov (1880) Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tosca (1900) Puccini

The Marriage of Figaro (1786) Mozart

La Traviata (1853) Verdi

Lord of the Rings (books [1954-1955] and movies [2001-2003]) JRRT

Horatio Hornblower (books [1941-1967] and TV [1998-2003]) CS Forester

The First Law universe (2006-2021) Joe Abercrombie  

The Musketeers (2014-2016 A great show that ran 2 seasons)

The Borgias (2011-2013)

Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009 but only the first two seasons. This limitation says everything about me.)

[yardsards]

everyone on here loves laios for his autism swag but if half of yinz met someone like him in real life you'd be like "i don't know,,, he makes me uncomfy. something about him just gives me bad vibes, you know? :/" (and the "bad vibes" you'd be picking up on are just. signs of autism)

[death-limes]

anti-voting ppl be like “i just dont feel comfortable voting for the dems who did x y and z awful thing, can you blame me?” no but i can blame you for refusal to act bc that does, in fact, split the vote and aid the self-proclaimed dictator

like. chemotherapy is awful and damaging and it ravages ppls bodies but we still use it and it still saves lives bc right now it’s the only method we have to get the cancer out

[theshysoul]

[thevioletcaptain]

Way back in 2013, from opposite sides of the planet, @deathbycoldopen and I started exchanging Supernatural meta & DeanCas fic on Tumblr. We became friends, then a long-distance couple, and then in 2019 I moved to Los Angeles from Australia when we got married.

My entire DVD collection is still in storage back in Melbourne, which means I’ve been subjected to the wrong music and the whims of internet nonsense for almost five years.

Anyway, this is what they got me for my birthday last week, and I simply had to share along with the note she wrote because, y’know. The deancas of it all 🥰

Wild to think that we wouldn’t even know each other if not for this show.

[fisheito]

finally listening to the h-scene audio after 1.5 years on mute

yakumo: gasps and whimpers in the whiniest brokenest way me:

[sugarcandydoll]

thunder reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ rain reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ navy blue reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ men's cologne reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ cheekbones remind me of nate jacobs ♡ swords remind me of nate jacobs ♡ deers remind me of nate jacobs ♡ fresh laundry reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ afternoon naps remind me of nate jacobs ♡ veiny hands reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ bandaid reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ heroes remind me of nate jacobs ♡ cuddles remind me of nate jacobs ♡ drowning reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ babies reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ loneliness reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ policemen reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ stars remind me of nate jacobs ♡ crying reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ pickup trucks remind me of nate jacobs ♡ storms remind me of nate jacobs ♡ beer bottles reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ hugs remind me of nate jacobs ♡ prince charming reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ secrets remind me of nate jacobs ♡ steel reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ handsome strangers remind me of nate jacobs ♡ the ocean reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ grey sweatpants remind me of nate jacobs ♡ dreams remind me of nate jacobs ♡ wind reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ silence reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ blueberries remind me of nate jacobs ♡ long drives remind me of nate jacobs ♡ safety reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ showers remind me of nate jacobs ♡ the cosmos reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ holding hands remind me of nate jacobs ♡ dubio on ice reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ skiing reminds me of nate jacobs ♡ sapphires remind me of nate jacobs ♡ the sky reminds me of nate jacobs ♡

[luxlisbonsthings]

i have an overwhelming desire to be held and loved while simultaneously being disgusted at all affection directed towards me

[gotinterest]

"did a double take at this not being anneemay" anne isn't the only gollum blogger on this site !!!! 😤😤😤

[uncanny-tranny]

Something I think ought to be more readily-available and encouraged is simply... taking parental classes. I wish it were more common for people to realize just how hard - and important - parenting is, and indeed, that we all could use help with taking care of young folk. It's really alarming that popular opinion is still that parental classes are only for the "fuck-up" parents, or the parents who utterly failed. It should be seen as a good thing to take parental classes - especially on your own volition. It should be seen as imperative for one to take them, it should be a free, accurate, and scheduled occurrence so that people of any background are able to attend.

[apothiplatonic]

i've often tried to explain why i'm friend-repulsed – what is so uniquely distressing about friendship to me, compared to other interpersonal bonds – so here's one part of it.

friendships feel distinct from other types of relationships in that they usually start without any agreements, and can be entered into without even realizing. growing up, this was frightening to me; to hear a teacher declare we had to be friends with every student in the classroom, or to be called friends with someone i was just polite or kind to. when i did see models of “people asking if they can be your friend”, it was in children's books about how rejecting them makes you a bully. there was, and is, no escape. to suddenly hear that someone considered me a friend, and that i would be an evil oath-breaker if i left them or failed to be a “good friend” or sat there and did nothing at all, was bone-chilling. i made no oath!

i'm a scrupulous person, and i was even worse as a kid, so my society's friendship norms hurt me a lot. i didn't have any cultural example of how to say “no” to “do you want to be my friend?”, no script to turn down a kind and well-intentioned request for friendship, no means of egress that didn't make me a villain. i would regularly end up in – what seemed to me – servitude to some other child, not sure how i got there but unable to leave until they lost interest in me. i felt bent to the will of one person after the other, each one oblivious to how i felt their every friendly action as suffocating, consuming, as knives carving me into an empty statue who would do what they wanted. i was given no model for negotiating a friendship contract, but always reminded that there was a contract, one that i could not see or understand or alter.

...of course, there are always unspoken rules in social interaction, and culturally-approved coercion, and awful norms around consent. but there's something about how harmless friendship is seen as, and how socially discouraged it is to deny it, that hurt me a lot. i didn't have a drive towards friendships, so my friends were decided by whichever child was pushy and domineering enough, and i assumed that was just how things worked. i never even noticed when my friends actually treated me unfairly, because all of it hurt so much that i couldn't tell the difference. until i found the apl community, i couldn't find the language or ideas to even begin to think about it!

i think in most possible worlds, i would still be aplatonic. but it's this – my own experience of friendship as an inescapable torment, tearing chunks out of myself and offering them to whoever was strong enough, while the adults around me called me “such a good friend” – that made me friend-repulsed.

[masonjarart]

Just watching how Ramon acts with sunny you can see how much he cares for her he doesn't want her to go through all of the things he has (even though she and the other new eggs probably went through some stuff on egg island) like all that kid wants is for his family to be safe and now this with forever threatening all the eggs he must be more scared than ever there's only so much he can do to protect her from that gun

[hey-hamlet]

art supply haul lets goooo!! the notebook is a fully custom one that this little store made in like 30 minutes, its delightful and i love them.

also. no prizes for guessing where i am right now lmaoo

[belovedviolence]

it's pissing me off that people are grouping alma from phantom thread and erika from the piano teacher into the "horrible women" category... like alma only wanted her husband to slow down a little! and yes maybe poisoning him wasn't the best way but the intent behind it is so innocent! and the only thing horrible that erika does is what she does to herself!! these are not horrible women these are women starved of love

[sweetestgirlintown111]

It's so unfair

[p4r4n0rmal-exe]

MTA! :3/ NEW PINNED

HEY! finally, a proper post! explaining who this mysterious dumbass who just popped up on ur dash with cotl stuff is! MY NAMES WEBBER1 i also go by Dino! im 19 (turning 20 soon) and im ur local cryptid who is generally just having a good ol time! DMS+ ASKS ARE ALWAYS OPEN! i looovee to interact with you guys its so fun <3

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